Inflame-aging

The following image was designed to illustrate how inflammatory foods accelerate the aging process. The dietary and supplement approach in the Deflaming Guidelines are designed to blunt the uncontrolled chronic inflammation of aging and serve as a method to promote health and longevity.

While it might read like a made-up term, inflamm-aging or inflammaging, are accepted terms in the scientific literature. The term “inflammaging” was coined for the purpose of describing the newly appreciated observation that a chronic subclinical inflammatory state will lead to diseases associated with aging. Inflammaging is initially quite, subclinical:

Depending on our genetic disposition for disease expression, any number of diseases are possible, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic pain, arthritis, osteoporosis, and neurodegenerative diseases. The link below describes this relationship to Alzheimer’s disease:

Dr. Claudio Franceschi, who is credited with coining the term “inflammaging,” also tells us that we can “ANTI-inflammage” (1). The best available evidence indicates that the following factors promote health aging or “anti-inflammaging”:

1. Maintaining proper body weight. Make your goal to achieve and maintain your high school or college weight; that is, whatever you weighed prior to the addition of excess body fat.

2. Exercise regularly – that means every day do something for 30-60 minutes.

3.Eat anti-inflammatory foods to reach and maintain your ideal body weight. This means we need to moderately reduce our caloric intake and make sure that the foods we choose are anti-inflammatory.

4. Take anti-inflammatory supplements – the Basic Health Promotion supplement program contains a multivitamin (2,3), magnesium (4), omega-3 fish oil (5,6), and vitamin D (7), all of which have been linked to reduced inflammation and healthy aging. Advanced Health Promotion supplement program contains the addition of probiotics (8), coenzyme Q10 (9), and botanicals/spices (10,11), all of which are supportive of healthy aging.